Hammouda Sabbagh | |
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حمودة الصباغ | |
Speaker of the People's Assembly of Syria | |
Assumed office 28 September 2017 | |
President | Bashar al-Assad |
Preceded by | Hadiya Khalaf Abbas |
Member of the Central Command of the Syrian Regional Branch of the Baath Party | |
Assumed office 22 April 2017 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Al-Hasakah, Syria, United Arab Republic | 10 February 1959
Political party | Ba'ath Party |
Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh (Arabic: حمودة يوسف الصباغ ALA-LC: Ḥammūdah Yūsuf al-Ṣabbāgh, born 10 February 1959)[1] is a Syrian politician who has been the Speaker of the People's Council of Syria since September 2017.[2] He is the first Assyrian Christian[3] to have held the post,[4] and overall the second Christian to hold that post since Fares al-Khoury.[5] He was elected speaker of parliament with 193 votes out of 252.[5]